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I always found BIOS fonts ugly, especially the uppercase and lowercase D letters. What I do like are monospace fonts having one-story lower A letters. My short
by tannhaeuser 9y ago
I always found BIOS fonts ugly, especially the uppercase and lowercase D letters.
What I do like are monospace fonts having one-story lower A letters. My short list of modern fonts with this feature:
- Monaco (Mac-only, 9pt and 12pt bitmap); "()" and "[]" appear circle- and square-like, resp.
- Anonymous 9 (Mac-only, bitmap)
- Anonymous (TTF, like Anonymous 9)
Plus, some monospace fonts have one-story as cursive/italics letter forms.
Anonymous Pro has two-story a and has much more complete Unicode coverage; has more latin-like proportions (x-height) and has (not strictly necessary) serifs on eg. letter C, lower letter F, etc. so probably doesn't go well with a sans font for other text?
- statico 9y agoMonaco bitmap 9pt should have a warm place in every classic Mac user's heart, along with Helvetica 9pt. If you want a flashback into Classic Mac development, a while back I tried some development with MetroWerks CodeWarrior, Symantic C++, and more, and I took screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/scNE2 https://imgur.com/a/scNE2
- naikrovek 9y agoI spent so long looking for a font that rendered on Windows like Monaco 10 did on Mac that I wound up just making it myself, with a few changes. I called it Monocle and I still use it. https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/517659/monoclefixed https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/517659/monoclefix...
- Nyubis 9y agoHere's one to add to your list: https://github.com/lucy/tewi-font https://github.com/lucy/tewi-font